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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “felipe hernandez”
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  • Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture

    Edited by Felipe Hernández, Itohan Osayimwese ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different times, cultures and places. While race has been deployed historically to establish hierarchies in a modern-colonial world, it also has acquired the capacity to challenge those hierarchies, enabling critical engagements with epistemic positions that have been excluded from univocal ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Roots of Chaos - Volume 1 - Lux

    by Bartolomé Segui Nicolau, Felipe Hernández Cava ...
    Series Book 1 - The Roots of Chaos
    March 1953. Alexander is walking through the streets of London with a bomb in his hand. It is destined for Marshal Tito, during his controversial visit to Great Britain. Alexander's story began several months earlier, when his mother was struck by a car and instantly killed. Trying to understand why and how his mother, who was in an institution for senile elderly people, wound up so far from her ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Bhabha for Architects

    by Felipe Hernandez ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha's use of the concept of ‘space’ has made his work highly appealing to architects and architectural theorists.This introductory ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Roots of Chaos - Volume 2 - Umbra

    by Bartolomé Segui Nicolau, Felipe Hernández Cava ...
    Series Book 2 - The Roots of Chaos
    In the aftermath of his mother's death, Alexander finds himself sucked into the crazy world of espionage. He is sure of only two things: that his life is in danger and that everyone around him is playing some kind of game. Their game. First and foremost Vanessa, the British secret agent who has recently become Alexander's lover. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Informal City

    Critical Perspectives from Latin America

    Edited by Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett, Lea Knudsen Allen ...
    Series Book 11 - Remapping Cultural History: Perspectives on Southern Europe and the Mediterranean
    Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    The Renewal of a European Metropolis

    Edited by Tim Marshall ...
    This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980s first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network

    Lessons, Projects and Prospects from Lisbon

    Edited by João Rafael Santos, Maria Matos Silva, Ana Beja da Costa ...
    Series series Project Thinking on Design
    This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact large, urbanised landscapes.The book offers a multidimensional and multi ... Read more

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  • Consumers And Citizens

    Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts

    by Nestor Garcia Canclini ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the Americas
    An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.In Consumers and Citizens, Néstor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
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    $24.59 USD

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    Edited by Nuno Monteiro, Patrícia Silva, Pedro C. Magalhães ...
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  • Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

    The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

    Edited by Thomas Muhr ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and beyond.This book uses the case of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples’ Trade ... Read more

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